Luohan Webinar
Luohan Webinar is a virtual talk series hosted by the Luohan Academy, dedicated to enriching the collective understanding of the evolving digital landscape's impact on society and the economy. Our goal is to identify and tackle the most important questions faced by the society in the digital age by bridging perspectives in economics and technology, theory and practice, and public and private sectors. Welcome to join this captivating voyage initiated at the global center of the digital economy – Hangzhou, China – and build the future of digital knowledge together every Tuesday.
Visit our main site to learn more about the Luohan Academy: www.luohanacademy.com
The 2024 Conference on the Digital Economy: sites.google.com/view/2024-luohan-annual-conference/2024-annual-conference
Time Zone: China
Upcoming Talks
Multinational Production and Innovation in Tandem
Dec 3 | Cuimin Ba (Pittsburgh)
Over- and Under-reaction to Information
Nov 19 | Lindsey Raymond (Microsoft Research)
Generative AI at Work
Generative AI in Computational Social Science Research
Oct 15 | Katherine Stapleton (World Bank)
TBA
Sept 24 | Lin William Cong (Cornell)
AlphaManager: A Data-Driven-Robust-Control Approach to Corporate Finance
Sept 10 | Shumiao Ouyang (Oxford)
How Ethical Should AI Be? How AI Alignment Shapes the Risk Preferences of LLMs
Past Talks
Sept 3 | Baozhong Yang (Georgia State)
ChatGPT and Corporate Policies
The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market
Jul 30 | Daniel Ferreira (LSE)
Governance and Management of Autonomous Organizations
Jun 4 | Anton Korinek (Virginia)
Scenarios for the Transition to AGI
May 29 | Modibo Camara (Stanford)
Computationally Tractable Choice
May 7 | Karthik Sastry (Princeton)
Attention Cycles
Apr 30 | Matthieu Bouvard (Toulouse)
Lending and Monitoring: Big Tech vs Banks
The Value of Platform Endorsement
Beyond AI Exposure: Which Tasks are Cost-Effective to Automate with Computer Vision
Nonlinear Pricing with Underutilization: A Theory of Multi-Part Tariffs
Apr 2 | Yunus Abyas (Stanford)
Cheap Talk in Complex Environments
Contextually Private Mechanisms
Mar 5 | Alberto Rossi (Georgetown)
Fighting Climate Change with FinTech
Feb 27 | Olivia Natan (UC Berkeley)
Choice Frictions in Large Assortments
Feb 20 | George Gui (Columbia)
The Challenge of Using LLMs to Simulate Human Behavior: A Causal Inference Perspective
